New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-11


who now know that there Is man of the name
of Rosser who didn't know it before.
Tho only sure anti-poverty receipt is to spend
less than you make.
The Ives bill to regulate betting on race tracks
has been reported favorably by the Senate Jul
dietary Committee, with some amendments. Alb
solute suppression of such betting has never been
accomplished on any course in tho State except
al Jerome Park II the present statutes remain
UNCHANGED there win certainly be the same con-
temptuous defiance OF the law in Kings Saratoga
and other counties that hes been seen for years
The argument OF the supporters Of the bill that ii
viii actually decrease the amount of betting and
Will lessen the damage it docs has been ably and
forcibly presented at Albany and elsewhere
ylas's department has a record Of 100000 errors
In o single year.-(Ctica Herald.
Mercy on us What would it have been mao
he turned out all the Republican clerks
People who have wondered at the heavy fogs
which have prevailed since Saturday are informed
that they are nothing remarkable except that they
come o little earlier than usual. Usually they
abound on the coast during midsummer. 1hey
are technically explained by saying that the pa
rometer stands higher at sea than on land puo
with so slight difference as TO cause only Ihe
gentlest possible landward drift Of warm sea ar
In other words no stolms are prevailing west OF
us TO agitate the atmosphere, as is generally INC
case IN the spring, and the moisture from the Az
lantic has an easy chance to settle down on US
1t is not supposed that this explanation Will soothe
the tempers Of the unluclIy passengers on the
steamships that lay outside Sandy Hook Tor TWO
DAYS or more but they will at least perceive from
.off ha
together to blame for the delay.
And vet again the marine news includes the
item that Courtney Of Union Springs is going TO
witch the world with noble manship. IL is
always thus this time Of the year, but the summers
como and go and the world remains unwitched.
Tho impression gaining ground that Courtney
il suffering from arrested development
1t is the comfort of the hish patriot that JUS
tee cannot long be handicapped by an adverse
majority
The weather for the first ten weeks of spring
is enough to show that the present Signal Service
officer has had some affiliations with the North
Pole
The most satisfactory letter the President
could write concerning the public lands question
scheme seems to no for Cleveland to recommend
one thing and for Sparks to do the opposite.
The Independence Day Association Of Harlem
has rashy resolved TO celebrate the Fourth again.
and to celebrate it royalty too II is to be hoped
the unhappy district will get of better than IL
did n year ago. whcp the enthusiastic patriots
pretty nearly burned mp the place terrified CHER
AlcCabc into calling ont three SKIES and turned
the Fire Department topsy-turvy so that 1t has
not entirely recovered from It's excitement to this
day.
General Wolseley would probably have had
moro respect for General Grant had he been in
command Of the rebel forces at Vicksburg or
Uonelson.
"Every day there is some new evidence given that
tho bloody shirt orators must retire from bust
ness 20 says "1hc Galveston News in face
OF the fact That to-day finds General Rosser pa
rading up and down and across and oil over the
valley Of the Shenandoah wildly waving tho most
sanguihary sort Of bloody shirt in the face or
General Sheridan.
Editor Grady is to deliver grafton at the
dedication Of a Confederate monument. Grady
had better look out for his boom. Finer booms
than his have been smashed by rebel speeches.
Tho Albany Times copies into its columns
from Tho Bobcaygeon independent an inter
csting article on 1.-The Use OF Looms Judging
from tho record OF the session Just closing the
Democrats party make it n practice TO send
their looms to the Legislature. See the votes Oh
tho Crosby and vedder bills.
Secretary Bayard wants a mixed commission
to settle the Canadian fisheries dispute. Are
not things sufficiently mixed already without a
mixed commission
1t Is q sound principle which Mayor Hewitt
cnunciated when he SAID: IF | am to choose
between expenditure and the enforcement Of the
law by melting out justice TO all, and the fail
ure to secure this through false economy l am
in favor OF expenditure Judicious outlay to
supply needed criminal court-rooms will be
wise Investment for this city,
"The Rochester Union Is weeping with great
fuency because no census OF the State has been
recently taken. Instead Of weeping 1t ought to
dry its eyes and lecture Governor ILL., who mass'
cred tho census bill with his little Veto
Indiana Will go for Cleveland In isss.-tAtlanta
Constitution
Right you are 1t will 90 for him. Go for him
like thousand Of bricks,
The settlement OF the controversy over the Will
OF the late and eccentric Mr.. Hen Is probably due
to the fact that the legaee q woman.
man in like circumstances would probably have
made a desperate fight to keep it all. But Mrs,
Wagner was evidently Of the opinion that
81, OO0, 900 was enough for several people, so
she proposed n divide" and now every ono is
happy, except perhaps the lawyers.
The Kentucky idea concerning which Mr. Wat
terson talks much seems TO be an idea that
whlskey should be protected and iron left TO take
care Of itself
PERSONAL.
Tho bust OF Donatello and memorial tablet will
bo unveiled to-day on the Piazza dol Duomo Florence
Tho exhibition of his works Will also be opened In the